In the eighth episode of BYOB: The Healthcare Podcast, the team speaks to Josh Dumas who is a Center Director for ChenMed in Jacksonville, FL. The crew discusses how the Medicare Advantage market has exploded in recent years and how organizations like ChenMed among others, are leading the way in a new high-touch setting for Medicare beneficiaries. The guys deepdive with Josh on what it’s like to lead a site that takes care of thousands of lives, what events early in his life inspired him to join the healthcare field and what it was like to leave a prominent administrative fellowship to pursue an opportunity across the country.
Josh Dumas – ChenMed
Josh Dumas serves as a Center Director at ChenMed, a value-based primary care provider for Medicare lives, where he is responsible for the day-to-day operations, profitability, and membership growth of a 1500+ patient clinic in Jacksonville, Florida. Josh served as an operations manager prior to his current role and is an alumna of ChenMed’s Leadership Academy. Before ChenMed, Josh worked with Sutter Health and Kaiser Permanente in the Bay Area. Josh received his MHA from Cornell University in 2020, and his Bachelors in Biology and Psychology from Central Connecticut State University in 2018.
With a passion for serving and improving the lives of those in need, Josh hopes to use healthcare as a tool to create socially equitable and thriving communities. Josh firmly believes that every human deserves an equal opportunity to be their happiest and healthiest self, regardless of the race, gender, income, or social class they are born into. Josh believes that healthcare can and should be used as a catalyst to drive change and empower underserved communities.
The crew asked Josh the following questions:
- For our listeners who may not be aware, can you speak to the great work that ChenMed does and who they are?
- What does value-based care mean to you?
- Can you talk to us about the Medicare Advantage market and why has that exploded so much in recent years with entrants like ChenMed and Oak Street Health?
- How did you carve a path to be at ChenMed today?
- How do you find balance outside of work and how do you inspire others?
- What are you still looking forward to in your career?
In this week’s ‘Talking with Nakin’ segment, Nakin speaks to the CVS announcement that indicates that they would be closing 900 stores over the next three years. The crew discusses the impacts that these closings have in areas that are already seen as health and pharmacy desserts. CVS has a larger footprint in the United States (as it relates to the number of physical locations) than Walmart, Target, Kroger and Costco combined, even after closing 250 stores in recent years. Listen to this episode as the crew discusses this and more and welcome listeners into the last bit of 2021!
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